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Shout Outs

As this truck was built to
compete in a build-off (and
took top honors in said
contest), it’s important to
mention a few of the partners
in this massive project:
Lizard Skin, Chrome Shop
Mafi a, Jackson Glass, Galvan
Industries and Bryan Martin
among others.
among others.

Pacheco trucks earn their keep, and this one is no exception.
Not only has it hauled the family thousands of miles back and forth
Built to WORK
across the country since it’s been built, it also hauls several tons of
stone when needed for the family business. Like Charlie says, “We
gotta build them for a purpose other than looking good or just for
cruising. They gotta pay for themselves.” Something else worth
pointing out are the exhaust stacks. Note that they are hex-shaped,
not round. Because he doesn’t own a bending brake, he welded all
six sides together on each stack. That’s about three hundred feet of

welding – the length of a football fi eld.

On the Road… Association truck show hosted was the build-off contest winner,
and fi nally back home to New
by Chrome Shop Mafi a. After
As soon as the truck was that, it was a run from New Mexico. Other than a couple
completed, its shakedown run Mexico to Lincoln, Nebraska, of electrical issues that took a
was a 1500-mile round trip to back to New Mexico, and then to couple of minutes to fi x, the rig
Joplin, Missouri for the Guilty by Las Vegas for SEMA – where it performed fl awlessly.

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